Lifelong Learning Seminars

About

Attend a Lifelong Learning Seminar, a learning vacation unlike any other. Spend time with some of Hillsdale College’s most distinguished professors exploring the great ideas and principles that built and sustain our country. Discuss the ideas that have created more freedom and raised the hopes and expectations of millions, not only in this country but throughout the world.

Relive higher education as it used to be, in a place where it still is.

Lifelong Learning Seminars let you relive the experience of higher education as it used to be, in a place where it still is. It’s college life as you remember it: the sharing of insights, the give-and-take of lively discussion, the camaraderie of peers. It’s a fresh look at the enduring values of our society in the Hillsdale way, free of the trendy ideological clichés that dominate thinking on so many other campuses today. It’s a vacation unlike any you’ve had—the learning experience of a lifetime, to complement a lifetime of learning.

Lifelong Learning Seminars offer a week of exciting activities. Guests share intense discussions with Hillsdale faculty members and fellow program participants, delving deeply into the sources of American liberty. Guests are welcome to take advantage of varying opportunities for fun, recreation, and fitness in our state-of-the-art health education and sports complex. All seminars include delicious meals and top-rated accomodations.

July 21-27, 2019

Islam and the West

July 28-31, 2019

American History Since World War II

This family seminar—designed for junior high- and high school-age children and their parents or grandparents—will consider the Cold War, LBJ’s Great Society, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, the administrative state, post-1960s liberalism, and the Reagan revolution.

August 5-8 & August 9-12, 2019

Historical Issues and Controversies

This seminar will examine topics related to the history of America and the world since the turn of the 20th century, with a special emphasis on statesmen such as Calvin Coolidge, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher.

We offer three locations to enjoy a Lifelong Learning Seminar – on the beautiful Hillsdale campus, nestled in the rolling farm country of southern Michigan; surrounded by the natural setting of our Rockwell Lake Lodge located at the G. H. Gordon Biological Station in Luther, Michigan; and in the heart of our nation’s capital at our Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Capitol Hill, just minutes from the Supreme Court, the Senate office buildings, and the historic Union Station.